Beards '19

from Olds by John William Watkins

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We're two good old country folk
Lettin our beards grow down over our throats
If our rights the coalition vote for to plunder
We’ll know only we should tear us asunder

Here I'll love you where my dad did my mother
Over and under the old quilt-top cover
Where the stars fall and the sun comes up
Over the fields and the rivers of mud

We're not hip to the latest styles
We're good with a smoke and the new primetime
If every year that old Bible Belt gets tighter
Though our bellies grow wider?
Shit, we will abide

Here I'll love you where my dad did my mother
Over and under the old quilt-top cover
Where the stars fall and the sun comes up
Over the fields and the rivers of mud

Let's grow babies in the garden row
Raise them up like birds of blue
Teach them songs of love and hope
Set them free when the dreams
That they dream grow to big
For our gauche little nest in the tree

We're two good old country folk
Lettin our beards grow down over our throats
I'll shuck your corn and pick your tomatoes
If you plow my field real good
Thanks be to God what it gave us

Here I'll love you where my dad did my mother
Over and under the old quilt-top cover
Where the stars fall and the sun comes up
Over the fields and the rivers of mud

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from Olds, released April 8, 2019

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John William Watkins Iowa

"Watkins has mastered the art of expressing human emotions in a way that keeps them relevant to anyone with heart, while remaining true to his specific experience. This is not the moon, or June romanticism enshrined in 20th-century pop songs. It’s something else: lovely and valuable."

-Kent Williams/Little Village
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